Events
Taking Scholarship Public: White Supremacy, Medieval Studies, and Mass Media
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe “unofficial medievalist to CNN,” David M. Perry is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in CNN.com, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon, Chicago Tribune, and many other venues. In addition to commenting on Medieval History in the news, he focuses on issues of history, […]
PhD+: Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom – Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom: Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design" is the first event for the 2017-2018 PhD+ series. Three panelists who completed their PhDs in the humanities at UC Santa Cruz will will discuss their careers in curriculum development and instructional design and offer insights into transferring skillsets and content knowledge into […]
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Living Writers Series: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o, novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature, is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family. He was educated at Kamandura, Manguu and Kinyogori primary schools; Alliance High School, all in Kenya; Makerere University […]
Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Cohen, “Many Molyneux Questions”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Many Molyneux Questions" Mohan Matthen and Jonathan Cohen Molyneux asked whether a newly sighted man would recognize and distinguish a sphere and a cube by sight alone, assuming that he could previously do this by touch. The most historically important responses to Molyneux arise from views that apply uniformly to questions about the transferability of […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium: Fatima Mojaddedi
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFatima Mojaddedi, "Body Mike: Alternating Words on the Afghan Frontier" This talk examines how the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan relies on a fetishistic misrecognition of speaking as inspiration, and takes linguistic expression as the dissemination of terroristic violence through oral networks of exchange and emboldening. It suggests that the more obvious powers of […]
IDEA Hub Fall Open House
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEngage in social and creative enterprise with a growing community of entrepreneurs at UCSC. Learn about social and creative innovation projects and opportunities. Tour the OpenLap incubator spaces. Wednesday, October 11, 2017 1:00-5:00 p.m. Digital Arts Research Center Room 108 Schedule of Events: 1:00 p.m. Information Botths OpenLab Tours Lunch Buffet 1:45 p.m. Introductions 2:00 […]
Carrie Smith, “Digital Feminist Futures: Creative Resistance, Art Activism, & the Affects of Political Practice”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCarrie Smith-Prei’s research examines how the digital restructures cultures of feminism, including creative materializations & world-making practices. It asks after the future of feminist craft & activism in the digital sphere & the meaning (and limits) of global feminist solidarity, intersectional community-building, & transnational collaboration in developing just futures on & offline. Smith-Prei Associate Professor […]
Calamities, Prose, Houses: The Art And Writing of Renee Gladman
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us next Tuesday October 10th for a Creative/Critical symposium on the art and writing of Renee Gladman--featuring a talk and reading by the author from 10:30-12 in Hum 1 210. There will also be a later panel on Gladman's work from 1:30-3 in Hum 1 210 featuring Mary Wilson, Cathy Thomas, and David Buuck. This event is part […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 Ashwini Deo, "Alternative circumstances of evaluation and the ser/estar distinction in Spanish" Abstract: The Spanish copulas ser and estar have distributional and interpretational patterns that have resisted an adequate analysis. In this talk, I work towards a unified analysis that treats the two copulas as being presuppositional variants that are differentially sensitive […]
“Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World” Symposium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World” In the past decade, historians and literary scholars have become increasingly interested in the global circulation of the written word. Much of this scholarship has focused on the movement of printed books. Other projects, such as Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters initiative, have traced epistolary networks […]